[f. BROODY a. + -NESS.] The condition or quality of being broody.
1849. Hist. Tales Wars Scotl., III. 242. Over against Ceres stood Fecundity, with some bushes of chesbolls, which, under an hieroglyphic sense, represent broodiness with this device.
1881. Gard. Chron., No. 441. 780. A change of run is almost a certain cure for broodiness [in hens].
